I am a plastic surgeon in Little Rock, AR. I used to "suture for a living", I continue "to live to sew". These days most of my sewing is piecing quilts. I love the patterns and interplay of the fabric color. I would like to explore writing about medical/surgical topics as well as sewing/quilting topics. I will do my best to make sure both are represented accurately as I share with both colleagues and the general public.

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Friday, January 30, 2009

The summer block of my Four Seasons quilt is the wild rose block. I found it in the “Award Winning Quilts” by Effie Chalmers Pforr (published in 1974). It was submitted by Mrs Rex Watson of Valparaiso, Indiana. She is quoted

“I chose the Wild Rose pattern because it makes such a beautiful quilt, and it brings back memories of girlhood days on the farm, where we had the delicate wild rose blooming along the fence row.”

It could have been my own words. I love wild roses.

I replaced the “satin-like” fabric center with a slightly smaller yellow cotton center. I like it much better. I did the machine stitching on the leaves, buds, and flowers BEFORE doing the quilting. I have outlined quilted the roses/leaves and then cross-hatched the background.

Penny, thanks. The roses are hand appliqued. If you go back to the previous posts, it's the quilt I started years ago and never finished. I took it apart at the end of last year and made it my "new year's resolution" to finish it.

Jabulani, I did the cross-hatching after the applique. Had to "stop" at each rose/leaf so as not to go across them. Makes it "tricky" when machine quilting but still faster for me than hand quilting.

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